Write a generic method minimum that takes a List and a Comparator and returns the smallest element in the list accordingly the comparator, or null if the list is empty. Assume there are no null elements in the list.

Consider this data sequence: "3 11 5 5 5 2 4 6 6 7 3 -8". any value that is the same as the immediately preceding value is considered a consecutive duplicate. in this example, there are three such consecutive duplicates: the 2nd and 3rd 5s and the second 6. note that the last 3 is not a consecutive duplicate because it was preceded by a 7. write some code that uses a loop to read such a sequence of non-negative integers , terminated by a negative number. when the code finishes executing, the number of consecutive duplicates encountered is printed. in this case, 3 would be printed. assume the availability of a variable, stdin, that references a scanner object associated with standard input. that is, stdin = new scanner(system.in); is given.

What is the worst-case complexity of the maxrepeats function? assume that the longest string in the names array is at most 25 characters wide (i.e., string comparison can be treated as o( class namecounter { private: int* counts; int nc; string* names; int nn; public: namecounter (int ncounts, int nnames); int maxrepeats() const; }; int namecounter: : maxrepeats () { int maxcount = 0; for (int i = 0; i < nc; ++i) { int count = 1; for (int j = i+1; j < nc; ++j) { if (names[i] == names[j]) ++count; } maxcount = max(count, maxcount); } return maxcount; }

Into what form does the barcode reader convert individual bar patterns?